Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Image Generation went from 780 papers in 2023 to 1,721 in 2026, roughly 2.2x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Image Generation work: 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026, 44% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · generative models and autoencoders: papers tagged with both rose from 35 in 2023 to 150 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Video Understanding, is up 2.6x versus 2.2x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
- ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
- ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Adaptive Learned Image Compression with Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025Alchemist: Turning Public Text-to-Image Data into Generative Gold
- ICML 2025BiMark: Unbiased Multilayer Watermarking for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
- CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
- ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
- ICLR 2024AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ
- CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
- NeurIPS 20234D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
- ICML 2023Architecture-Agnostic Masked Image Modeling -- From ViT back to CNN
- ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
- CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
- NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
- ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
- ICLR 2026All Patches Matter, More Patches Better: Enhance AI-Generated Image Detection via Panoptic Patch Learning
- CVPR 2026AIMDepth Asymmetric Image-Event Mamba for Monocular Depth Estimation
All Image Generation papers
612 papers, page 11 of 13
- CVPR 2025SketchVideo: Sketch-based Video Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025SleeperMark: Towards Robust Watermark against Fine-Tuning Text-to-image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025SlideChat: A Large Vision-Language Assistant for Whole-Slide Pathology Image Understanding
- CVPR 2025SnapGen: Taming High-Resolution Text-to-Image Models for Mobile Devices with Efficient Architectures and Training
- CVPR 2025SoftVQ-VAE: Efficient 1-Dimensional Continuous Tokenizer
- CVPR 2025Spatial Transport Optimization by Repositioning Attention Map for Training-Free Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025SpatialCLIP: Learning 3D-aware Image Representations from Spatially Discriminative Language
- CVPR 2025Spherical Manifold Guided Diffusion Model for Panoramic Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing
- CVPR 2025StableAnimator: High-Quality Identity-Preserving Human Image Animation
- CVPR 2025StageDesigner: Artistic Stage Generation for Scenography via Theater Scripts
- CVPR 2025StarGen: A Spatiotemporal Autoregression Framework with Video Diffusion Model for Scalable and Controllable Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
- CVPR 2025STDD: Spatio-Temporal Dual Diffusion for Video Generation
- CVPR 2025StdGEN: Semantic-Decomposed 3D Character Generation from Single Images
- CVPR 2025Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025STEPS: Sequential Probability Tensor Estimation for Text-to-Image Hard Prompt Search
- CVPR 2025STEREO: A Two-Stage Framework for Adversarially Robust Concept Erasing from Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025StreamingT2V: Consistent, Dynamic, and Extendable Long Video Generation from Text
- CVPR 2025Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget
- CVPR 2025Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025StyleMaster: Stylize Your Video with Artistic Generation and Translation
- CVPR 2025StyleStudio: Text-Driven Style Transfer with Selective Control of Style Elements
- CVPR 2025SwiftEdit: Lightning Fast Text-Guided Image Editing via One-Step Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Symmetry Strikes Back: From Single-Image Symmetry Detection to 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025SynerGen-VL: Towards Synergistic Image Understanding and Generation with Vision Experts and Token Folding
- CVPR 2025Synergizing Motion and Appearance: Multi-Scale Compensatory Codebooks for Talking Head Video Generation
- CVPR 2025T2ISafety: Benchmark for Assessing Fairness, Toxicity, and Privacy in Image Generation
- CVPR 2025T2V-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-video Generation
- CVPR 2025Targeted Forgetting of Image Subgroups in CLIP Models
- CVPR 2025Task-driven Image Fusion with Learnable Fusion Loss
- CVPR 2025TCFG: Tangential Damping Classifier-free Guidance
- CVPR 2025Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores Using Score Distribution
- CVPR 2025TexGarment: Consistent Garment UV Texture Generation via Efficient 3D Structure-Guided Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2025Text Embedding is Not All You Need: Attention Control for Text-to-Image Semantic Alignment with Text Self-Attention Maps
- CVPR 2025Text-Driven Fashion Image Editing with Compositional Concept Learning and Counterfactual Abduction
- CVPR 2025TFCustom: Customized Image Generation with Time-Aware Frequency Feature Guidance
- CVPR 2025The Devil is in the Prompts: Retrieval-Augmented Prompt Optimization for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025The Illusion of Unlearning: The Unstable Nature of Machine Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025The Impact Label Noise and Choice of Threshold has on Cross-Entropy and Soft-Dice in Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025The Power of Context: How Multimodality Improves Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025The Scene Language: Representing Scenes with Programs, Words, and Embeddings
- CVPR 2025Thin-Shell-SfT: Fine-Grained Monocular Non-rigid 3D Surface Tracking with Neural Deformation Fields
- CVPR 2025Through-The-Mask: Mask-based Motion Trajectories for Image-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Tiled Diffusion
- CVPR 2025TIMotion: Temporal and Interactive Framework for Efficient Human-Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025TinyFusion: Diffusion Transformers Learned Shallow
- CVPR 2025TKG-DM: Training-free Chroma Key Content Generation Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025TokenFlow: Unified Image Tokenizer for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2025Tokenize Image Patches: Global Context Fusion for Effective Haze Removal in Large Images
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FAQ
- How many Image Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 5,184 in total: 780 in 2023, 1,216 in 2024, 1,467 in 2025, 1,721 in 2026.
- How many Image Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 453 Image Generation papers, versus 430 the year before.
- How many Image Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 349 Image Generation papers, versus 278 the year before.
- How many Image Generation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 230 Image Generation papers, versus 147 the year before.
- How many Image Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 689 Image Generation papers, versus 612 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Image Generation papers?
- CVPR, with 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026.